As a side benefit, all our son’s friends can see what a dial phone looks like and learn to use the dial. This is one of those skills lost to the younger generation.
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I liked the rest of your post, and likewise enjoy vintage products - anybody with a ‘53 tele they want to unload to another freeper, let me know :) - but the comment above has me chuckling. Hard to see how the younger generation would benefit from a rotary phone skill.
Only as a historical curiousity, really. We no longer turn the dial on our TV's, and alarm clocks seldom ring anymore. Sometimes I like to show these things to kids just so they understand where some of the expressions in our language come from. It was pretty funny seeing my sons trying to figure out how the dial worked. It wasn't obvious to them, which sort of surprised me. It's something I never thought about until I saw them trying to figure out this relic of the dark ages.